Miguel Arteta

It’s never easy to turn a thin, meditative children’s book into a full-fledged feature, capturing the oblique magic that comes on the page while still filling 90 or 100 minutes of big-screen action. Disney’s approach with Judith Viorst’s 1972 classic “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” — apart from the virtually unTwitter-able title — is to expand the bad day well beyond Alexander. The book, with memorable illustrations by Ray Cruz, focuses on Alexander’s mundane issues that of course to him seem very large — gum in his hair, lima beans for dinner, teachers who don’t understand him, friends who...

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It’s never easy to turn a thin, meditative children’s book into a full-fledged feature, capturing the oblique magic that comes on the page while still filling 90 or 100 minutes of big-screen action.
Disney’s approach with Judith Viorst’s 1972 classic...